Mark Dashboards and Widgets as Public - Allow/Restrict Switch

This section explains about how to allow/restrict marking the Dashboards/Widgets as public from the administration dashboards settings page.

You can control the user to make the Dashboards/Widgets as public through the Dashboards settings tab in settings page. The user can able to mark the Dashboards/Widgets as public, if the administrator allows the Mark dashboards and widgets as public.

Take control over the public Dashboards/Widgets

If the administrator has allowed, then the user can able to mark the Dashboards/Widgets as public and other users can able to see the public Dashboards/Widgets.
If the administrator has restricted, the public Dashboards/Widgets cannot be rendered by the user until they hold the permission for the Dashboards/Widgets.

When the user tries to publish the dashboard from the designer by enabling Make public, the Dashboard Server will allow it if the administrator has allowed the Mark Dashboards and Widgets as public in the Dashboards tab of the settings page. Otherwise, the error message will show as follows:

Mark dashboards and widgets as public switch to allow/restrict public Dashboards/Widgets

After restricting the Mark dashboards and widgets as public in dashboards settings page, the following image will be displayed.

When you click the Make Public from the context menu of the respective Dashboards/Widgets, the following message will be shown to the administrator.

When you click the Make Public from the context menu of the respective Dashboards/Widgets, the following message will be shown to the user.

After restricting the Mark dashboards and widgets as public, if you click the Public Dashboards or Public Widgets tab the following message will be shown to the administrator.

After restricting the Mark dashboards and widgets as public, if you click the Public Dashboards or Public widgets tab the following message will be shown to the user.

Make public

Follow the below steps to make the Dashboards/Widgets accessible to anonymous users.

1.Allow the Mark dashboards and widgets as public in dashboards settings page.

2.Click the Make Public from the context menu of the respective Dashboard/Widget.

3.Click the Make public in the confirmation dialog box to mark Dashboards/Widgets as public.